Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
Traditional Residential Architecture in Albania and Kosovo – Mason-Carpenter Structures and Their Future Restoration
Abstract The distinct traditional building substance in Albania and Kosovo is made up of impressive residential houses (banesa) for rich landlords, warlords, tax collectors and merchants performing a rural-urban lifestyle. Therefore, a sophisticated blend of the all-time defendable Albanian tower house (kulla), still existing quite intact in the western Kosovo plains, and the comfortable Turkish residence was developed during the long centuries of the Ottoman rule over Western Balkans. With the distinct knowledge of the widely renowned Albanian interdisciplinary craftsmanship of stone cutters, masons and carpenters, earthquake resistant and comfortable structures were successfully erected on most difficult morphological sites, which nowadays for manifold reasons are heavily endangered. This article tries to describe the reasons for those man-caused dangers and, in three case-studies from Dranoc, Gjakova and Gjirokastra, already taken counter-measures. Interestingly all those efforts are not only interdisciplinary approached, but try also to create sustainable regional employment by means of maintenance and restoration work. Especially the Gjirokastra model with its revival of the former state-protected “conservation ateliers” looks promising. Nowadays the knowledge of those “conservation-atelier” craftsmen is not formally recognized and left out of the market. Therefore, and to revive the apprentice school idea, Cultural Heritage without Borders has started a vocational training program to guarantee employability for tomorrow.
Traditional Residential Architecture in Albania and Kosovo – Mason-Carpenter Structures and Their Future Restoration
Abstract The distinct traditional building substance in Albania and Kosovo is made up of impressive residential houses (banesa) for rich landlords, warlords, tax collectors and merchants performing a rural-urban lifestyle. Therefore, a sophisticated blend of the all-time defendable Albanian tower house (kulla), still existing quite intact in the western Kosovo plains, and the comfortable Turkish residence was developed during the long centuries of the Ottoman rule over Western Balkans. With the distinct knowledge of the widely renowned Albanian interdisciplinary craftsmanship of stone cutters, masons and carpenters, earthquake resistant and comfortable structures were successfully erected on most difficult morphological sites, which nowadays for manifold reasons are heavily endangered. This article tries to describe the reasons for those man-caused dangers and, in three case-studies from Dranoc, Gjakova and Gjirokastra, already taken counter-measures. Interestingly all those efforts are not only interdisciplinary approached, but try also to create sustainable regional employment by means of maintenance and restoration work. Especially the Gjirokastra model with its revival of the former state-protected “conservation ateliers” looks promising. Nowadays the knowledge of those “conservation-atelier” craftsmen is not formally recognized and left out of the market. Therefore, and to revive the apprentice school idea, Cultural Heritage without Borders has started a vocational training program to guarantee employability for tomorrow.
Traditional Residential Architecture in Albania and Kosovo – Mason-Carpenter Structures and Their Future Restoration
Jaeger-Klein, Caroline (Autor:in) / Kryeziu, Arnisa (Autor:in) / Mamani, Elena (Autor:in) / Thaçi, Kaltrina (Autor:in)
01.01.2019
9 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
Albanian kulla and banesa , Rural-urban traditional architecture , Mason-carpenter structures , Earthquake resistant construction , Conservation ateliers of the future , Employability of tomorrow Engineering , Building Materials , Characterization and Evaluation of Materials , Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
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